Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Discover how Allied forces and brilliant women analysts uncovered and delayed Hitler’s V2 rocket program, saving countless ...

As Operation Barbarossa stormed east, Hitler expected full Finnish support to crush Leningrad. But Marshal Mannerheim had ...

At the hour of Germany’s surrender in 1945, they performed a program by Felix Mendelssohn — whose music was banned under the ...

While German forces approached from the south, Finland closed in from the north—completing the noose around Leningrad. Driven ...

From Himmler’s Death’s Head formations to the mechanized fury of the Blitzkrieg, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte ...

Adolf Hitler saw Leningrad not just as a military target, but as a symbol of communism that had to be destroyed. This episode ...

The first naval battle of World War II unfolded not in European waters, but in the South Atlantic off the coasts of Argentina ...

As the war collapsed around them, Germany looked to suicide missions. The result: a cockpit-welded V-1 bomb piloted by ...